The Century of Artists' Books

TitleThe Century of Artists' Books
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsDrucker, Johanna
Number of Pages377 pp.
PublisherGranary Books
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781887123013
Annotation

Contents:
The Artist's Book as Idea and Form
Conceptualizing the Book: Precedents, Poetics and Philosophy
Artists' Book & the Early 20th-Century Avant-Garde
The Artist's Book as a Democratic Multiple
The Artist's Book as a Rare and/or Auratic Object
The Codex and its Variations
Self-Reflexivity in Book Form
The Book as a Visual Form
Books as Verbal Exploration
The Book as Sequence: Narrative and Non-narrative
The Artist's Book as an Agent of Social Change
The Book as Conceptual Space (Performance and Exhibition)
The Book as Document
Metaphor and Form: The Artist's Book in the 20th Century

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